Yohei is a large man who works as a town courier. His weakness is his slowness, which his colleague Densuke always makes fun of him for. One day, a young samurai asks him to deliver a letter to the daughter of a tokoroten shop owner on a back street on the outskirts of town. When he arrives, he finds a tokoroten stall, and a young woman named Orin is running the shop all by herself. As Yohei hands the letter to Orin, he is captivated by her lovely body.
Shinichiro Toyonaga
Rinako Hirasawa
野村貴浩
Madoka Arai
Shōji Mori
Takahiro Nomura
Yohei is a large man who works as a town courier. His weakness is his slowness, which his colleague Densuke always makes fun of him for. One day, a young samurai asks him to deliver a letter to the daughter of a tokoroten shop owner on a back street on the outskirts of town. When he arrives, he finds a tokoroten stall, and a young woman named Orin is running the shop all by herself. As Yohei hands the letter to Orin, he is captivated by her lovely body.
In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse they would disgrace their family. Old Orin is 69. This winter it is her turn to go to the mountain. But first she must make sure that her eldest son Tatsuhei finds a wife.
Toshio hires Yasaka to work in his workshop. But then this old acquaintance, who has just been released from prison, begins to meddle in Toshio's family life.
A group of travelers is stranded in a small country inn when the river floods during heavy rains. As the bad weather continues, tensions rise amongst the trapped travelers.
In 1923, teenager Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island, in South Korea, to Osaka, in Japan. Along the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent man and builds a factory of kamaboko, processed seafood products, in his poor Korean-Japanese community exploiting his employees.
When apathetic gamer Nagi agrees to join his rich classmate Mikage in soccer, their partnership leads to the famous Blue Lock program — and to changes.
A rebellious ninja in 17th century Japan takes refuge with a fisherman and his family.
The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped by the lord. Her husband and his samurai father must decide whether to accept the unjust decision, or risk death to rescue her.
Ocho is accidentally captured by a drug trafficking cartel who use Chinese women to smuggle drugs into Japan by hiding it in their vaginas. She is tortured, and manages to escape, fighting both the male yakuzas and a gang of female thieves.
Mikiya Kokutou gives Shiki Ryougi a cat to watch, as he will be away for a little while. Though Shiki protests, he leaves the cat anyway, and Shiki is stuck trying to understand her new feline companion. But as luck would have it, the cat seems to have taken a liking to Mikiya and misses him. Later in another part of the city, Ririsu Miyazuki visits the place where her dear friend committed suicide. She intends to end her life as well, but she meets Fujino Asagami, a blind classmate with a traumatic past. Though the two girls don't have much in common, Asagami reminds Miyazuki of her lost friend and helps her understand her pain. Two months later, Mikiya elects to celebrate New Year's with Shiki instead of his family, which makes his sister Azaka very upset, leading to her spending the holiday with her school friends. As the snow begins to fall, Mikiya reflects on what he wishes for most of all: that Shiki's life be filled with happiness.
Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.